STATS.org-ASA First-Ever Public Understanding of Statistics Fellow

S TATS.org, and the American Statistical Association (ASA), are proud to announce that Jonathan Auerbach, a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University, will serve as the first-ever Public Understanding of Statistics fellow for the...

Epistemically Challenged: Katharine Meyer

Epistemically Challenged is an opinion series about how each one of us explores knowledge. In this installment, Katharine Meyer, an education policy graduate student, talks about her work to increase higher education opportunities for low-income students, while...

The Sun is Out: Risk of skin cancer in different groups

Acommon refrain about skin cancer is that it affects one in five Americans in their lifetime. Yet not all skin cancer is the same, and its impact varies tremendously according to its type. A small collection of squamous cells is a mild annoyance requiring minor...